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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

For example, Hurricane Katrina, in August of 2005, presented as a once-in-a-generation disaster. Awareness of the critical relationship between climate change and natural disasters and that to address one means engaging with both is a crucial test for the sector. July was the hottest month in the hottest year in recorded history.

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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Highlights.

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Relaunching: A place for conversations, content, and more!

Amy Sample Ward

These three columns let visitors dive straight into content they are most interested in, like presentations (notes, information, links and slides), roundups (compilations of interesting content and conversations), and event popular blog posts (this is decided based on blog posts with the most clicks and visits). Input #3: Adding the extras.

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2010 Overachiever’s Guide to Year-End Fundraising

Care2

But in actuality it takes months of preparation – building and stewarding an online community, inspiring donors, cultivating them, testing in advance of year-end and analyzing your metrics -- to really make the most of your year-end fundraising opportunities.

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Deploying and Implementing Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Tech Soup

There are pros and cons to both approaches, and you should decide based on the technology capacity your organization and library has, and your present and future expansion plans for this multi-user setup. The input devices in this case can be connected via regular USB 2.0-only

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We know that the road to great results is paved with controlled experimentation , one hypothesis and test at a time. Using the scientific method for experiments can yield insights about how much time and effort – whether our effort has to reach perfection or not. Here are our crib notes. Measure program success, not just analytics.